While the rest of the media were distracted by that made-up controversy concerning radio clown Rush Limbaugh and ungrateful Georgetown Law School student Sandra Fluke, yours truly was concentrating on the real problem.

If you've been reading my writings about Obamacare, then you realize that the real problem with it has nothing to do with most of what is debated in the media, from "death panels" to that birth-control mandate.

That’s the question lawmakers are weighing as they consider controversial legislation that would eliminate New Jersey’s requirement that all college students have health insurance in order to attend class.

College officials are pushing lawmakers to kill the law because the implementation of Obamacare is driving up the cost of the basic health insurance plans offered to uninsured students by their schools. The jump in premiums — from a few hundred dollars this school year to more than $1,700 next year in some cases — could force some students to drop out.

That article was accompanied by the above photo of some Rutgers students agitating for Obamacare, the very program that will end their access to cheap health insurance.

Kiddies, you've been snookered. You made a big mistake: Your listened to your radical professors rather than listening to me.

I've been warning young people for years that Obamacare is a trap, a device for forcing them to subsidize health care for us baby-boomers. Here's what I wrote on the subject back in 2011 in a column headlined "Repeal Obamacare? Why Not Repeal Medicare first?"

In the column, I first considered a charge by Michele Bachmann that Obamacare was designed to siphon money from Medicare:

Bachmann asserted that Obama had cut $500 billion from Medicare. “That’s half a trillion dollars out of Medicare, and he shifted it to younger people in Obamacare,” she said.

He’s not really doing that. In fact the individual mandate is designed to do the exact opposite, at least according to the New Jersey congressman who was a key sponsor, Rep. Frank Pallone. “This plan actually helps folks on Medicare,” the Democrat from Monmouth County told me in 2009 when his bill was coming up for a vote. The mandate was designed to get younger and healthier citizens to subsidize older and less-healthy people, he said.

Are these college kids so naive they actually agree with that airhead Bachmann?

In that case we shouldn't just terminate the mandate that they buy health insurance.

We should shut down the state colleges.

They're clearly not doing their job. If they were, these kids would wake up to the hypocrisy of someone like Bachmann pretending to oppose socialized medicine while supporting Medicare, which is socialized medicine.

Once awake, they would start asking where the money is going to come from to fund the retirement of the baby boomers.